A Living Vein: Barrie Cooke, Ted Hughes, and the River Barrow

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The beautiful Graignamanagh

Talk on this Sunday at Carlow's VISUAL

Dr. Mark Wormald, University of Cambridge, will discuss the influences of fishing and his friendship with Barrie Cooke in the work of poet Ted Hughes on Sunday July 29 at 2pm. 

This July marks exactly 40 years since Barrie and Ted's first fishing trip by the river Barrow, just upstream from Graiguenmanagh.

The event is free. 

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